This week Stacey tells us about Craig Sorger, a 13-year-old boy from Ephrata, Washington, who was brutally beaten and stabbed to death in 2003 by his 12-year-old friends Evan Savoie and Jake Eakin after being lured to a park under the pretense of play.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqED09XsmmU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Craig_Sorger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHoajc7Daw

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This week Erin tells us about Chad MacDonald Jr., a 17-year-old from Yorba Linda who became a police informant after a meth arrest, but was murdered by drug dealers who suspected him of cooperating with police, leading to new laws restricting the use of juvenile informants.

Sources:

https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2001/dec/20/jury-convicts-two-men-and-a-woman-in-killing-of-17/

https://web.archive.org/web/20200803142523/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-05-mn-36322-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-05-mn-36403-story.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20240907140658/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-08-me-52029-story.html

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This week, Stacey tells us about the mysterious death of George Smith IV, who vanished under suspicious circumstances aboard a cruise ship in 2005.

Sources:

https://www.ibolaw.com/images/Murder-at-Sea-CBS-News.pdf

https://internationalcruisevictims.org/stories/george-allen-smith-iv/

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